'X' emulating Monochome displays ?

[Will Backman]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 17:12 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> All of a sudden, I miss my super old first PC, it had a small 9" screen,
> monochrome green.
> 
> I wondered, is there any 'plug-in' or whatever way of getting the 'X'
> server (is that how it's called ?) to convert the colors ito shades of
> grey, green, gold or whatever, before outputting to the display ?
> 
> Would that be complicated for X to do ?
> I understand that may give X some more work, but since my PC, despite
> being 2+ year old, basically wastes all its CPU cycles all day long, it
> should not hurt it if it works 6% of its time, instead of 5%.  Lazy
> machine ! ;-)
> 
> 
> Vince, feeling nostalgic...
> 
> 
> 
Add
Visual  "StaticGray"
to X config file.
See the man pages for more options.